At 11:00 PM 6/16/01, Dean Forster wrote:
>--- Ronn Blankenship
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 11:10 AM 6/16/01, you wrote:
> >
> > Seriously: your father only thought about the
> > scriptures as an
> > intellectual exercise, and never prayed to
> > understand them? Did he believe
> > that they were from God? If so, why not take
> > advantage of the opportunity
> > and ask the author?
> >
>
>I don't think he prays, per se. He has major problems
>with organized religion, and sees the Bible as tainted
>by 2000 years of Catholic politics. He does have
>Faith, perhaps in a slightly agnostic way. I'd say he
>more like communes, and it's something done while
>walking in the forest around where he spent summers as
>a boy.
Yes, I've done a lot of walking and thinking like that, too. I my case, I
did already have a faith in God and accepted the Bible as scripture. So I
was wondering why he would invest time in reading and thinking about the Bible.
-- Ronn! :)
